‘Cephalaspis asterolepis’
Date
1869
Creator - Organisation
Thomas Ladmore and Sons, Photographer
Object type
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 143mm
width (print): 182mm
height (mount): 210mm
width (mount): 245mm
width (print): 182mm
height (mount): 210mm
width (mount): 245mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Study of the fossilised head shield of the Devonian period jawless fish Cephalaspis asterolepis (Harley).
Frontispiece figure to the Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, 1868 (Times Office, Hereford, 1869). The image illustrates the short descriptive notice, ‘Cephalaspis asterolepis (Harley)’, by J.W.Salter, p.240.
The accompanying text states that this is: ‘An oblique view of a large specimen; seven inches broad, found on the east side of Skerrid-vawr, by E.Y.Steele, Esq., of Abergavenny, and now in the cabinet of J.E.Lee, Esq., of Caerloen, Monmouthshire.’ What may be the same specimen was later described by in the Geological Magazine, decade 2, 8, pp.193-194. ‘Note on a Fine Head-shield of Zenaspis (Cephalaspis) Salweyi, Egerton sp. Cephalaspis Asterolepis, Harley’.
Headed above: ‘WOOLHOPE NATURALIST’S FIELD CLUB’. Printed below: ‘CEPHALASPIS ASTEROLEPIS (Harley.) (SEE PAGE 240.) Ladmore and Son, Photographers to the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club.’
John William Salter (1820-1869) British geologist and palaeontologist was a Fellow of the Geological Society.
Thomas Ladmore and Son (active 1860s), photographic studio, operated from 17 King Street, Hereford, Herefordshire.
Frontispiece figure to the Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, 1868 (Times Office, Hereford, 1869). The image illustrates the short descriptive notice, ‘Cephalaspis asterolepis (Harley)’, by J.W.Salter, p.240.
The accompanying text states that this is: ‘An oblique view of a large specimen; seven inches broad, found on the east side of Skerrid-vawr, by E.Y.Steele, Esq., of Abergavenny, and now in the cabinet of J.E.Lee, Esq., of Caerloen, Monmouthshire.’ What may be the same specimen was later described by in the Geological Magazine, decade 2, 8, pp.193-194. ‘Note on a Fine Head-shield of Zenaspis (Cephalaspis) Salweyi, Egerton sp. Cephalaspis Asterolepis, Harley’.
Headed above: ‘WOOLHOPE NATURALIST’S FIELD CLUB’. Printed below: ‘CEPHALASPIS ASTEROLEPIS (Harley.) (SEE PAGE 240.) Ladmore and Son, Photographers to the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club.’
John William Salter (1820-1869) British geologist and palaeontologist was a Fellow of the Geological Society.
Thomas Ladmore and Son (active 1860s), photographic studio, operated from 17 King Street, Hereford, Herefordshire.
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